After finishing Assassins Creed Brotherhood Cesare has been haunting my brain for quite a long time. So I decided to make this fanfic to get him off there. This is my first assassins creed fanfic, so sorry for any ooc characters! The game felt short in the end, i'm so sad that it finished. Expect some spoilers of the end of Ezios memories (and maybe from the end of the game, I don't know) and future Cesare/Ezio and maaybe some Desmond/Shaun. I don't know how this will evolve. Well, onwards with the fanfic.

Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Assassins Creed. Why would I be making fanfiction if I did?

They were all paying all their attention to what the animus was showing them. Ezio's final battle. The last battle before Cesare Borgia died, and Ezio hided the apple. The last battle before they could finally learn where the apple was hided at and they could learn the locations of the temples to save the world from disaster. They were all paying their full attention to the screen that showed Ezio's memories, not saying a word. Ezio finally had reached the place where Cesare was, fighting, trying to win the battle he had created. "Cesare! There are walls around you! There is nowhere to run!" Ezio shouted. Cesare turned around and looked at Ezio, surprised and determined to kill the assassin who had ruined all of his plans. "Come then, Ezio!" He shouted. Ezio got out his sword and the both started fighting. The shouts from soldiers fighting against each other could be heard. Cannon balls were constantly hitting the walls of the castle of Viana, in a desperate attempt to conquer the castle. They both started attacking each other, both determined to kill the man in front of them. Both wanting to get rid of the man that was a menace to their plans, to their families, of the man that had destroyed their cities.

Ezio started attacking Cesare strongly, making him go backwards, nearing a wall. "I cannot die! Fortuna will not fail me!" Cesare shouted then. Ezio made no sign of hearing this, and he didn't say anything back to his enemy. He was too concentrated in the battle. Suddenly some guards came in. About four, and they all started attacking the Ezio. Ezio defended himself as best as he could, but could not avoid going backwards, towards the wall that was opposite to the one Cesare had been near brief moments ago. "No matter what you do, I will conquer all!" Cesare shouted again, as he attacked his enemy. Ezio continued attacking Cesare and the guards, but did not manage to get many results, due to all of them defending themselves successfully. Suddenly, Ezio pulled out his hidden blade, and killed the four guards quickly. "Give up! you are no match for me!" Cesare then shouted, as he attacked again Ezio, but getting no results. Both men were defending themselves in an excellent way. A few seconds after, Ezio attacked Cesare again, this time managing to overpower him. He pullled out his hidden blade as he forced Cesare to fall. The hidden blade was near Cesare's neck. "Only a bit more" Ezio thought as he pushed the blade nearer his enemy's neck, wanting to stop this once and for all. This did not succeed, however, as Cesare managed to move Ezio's hand. So instead of killing him it destroyed a part of his armor and his cloak. Ezio moved backwards as more guards entered again.

The fighting continued, as more and more guards entered and were killed, and as Cesare lost some other parts of his armour. In the ground countless bodies of dead guards could be seen. Some more shots could be heard, some made my cannon balls and some others made by Ezio's gun. Three guards entered again, and were quickly killed by Ezio, who didn't give them a chance to attack him. He battled with Cesare again, who now had barely any armour left. "Auditore! You will never beat me!" Cesare shouted again. He attacked Ezio, but was soon responded with a kick to his stomach. Ezio continued doing this and Cesare soon fell to the floor. The time had come. Ezio attacked him again, making the younger male lose his final energies and he soon jumped towards his rival, prepared to attack him with his hidden blade.

Cesare was lying on the ground, while Ezio had his hidden blade right next to his ext, prepared to kill him. "The throne was mine!" Cesare shouted. "Wanting something, does not make it your right" Ezio responded calmly. "What do you know?" Cesare argued back, annoyed. He looked at the assassin's face, looking at his reaction. Ezio responded quickly again, with no nervousness of any kind. "That the true leader empowers the people he rules". "I will lead mankind into a new world" Cesare said immediately after Ezio. Ezio looked at him, and let a brief moment pass before he answered and ambitious man. He was truly like Rodrigo Borgia. "Che nessuno recordi il tuo nome. Requiescat in pace" He said. Cesare was outraged by this. "You cannot kill me!" He shouted "No man can murder me!" He finished saying. "Then I leave you at the hands of fate" Ezio answered as he picked up Cesare and got nearer to a part of the wall that had been destroyed by a cannon ball. He was grabbing Cesare with his two arms by his shirt. He prepared to let go of him, and...

"No!" Rebecca shouted, jumping out of the chair she controlled the animus from. Lucy and Shaun were startled. The power had gone off, and they wouldn't be able to finish seeing Ezio's memories like that. "Fix it, quickly" Desmond said as he jumped out of the animus, at the same time as Shaun and Lucy. "How can the European electricity supply be so bad!" Rebecca said. "Shaun, Desmond! Go and look at our connections to the power supply! Maybe something went wrong!" Lucy said, quite nervous. "Why do I have to go? You won't be doing much here either" Shaun quickly replied. "Rebecca needs someone to help her" Lucy replied, in a way that made you unable to fight back. I started making my way towards the power supplies, Shaun following me.

We soon discovered the origin of the problem: An animal had cut off our supply accidentally. We both headed back to the chamber where we had been looking at Ezio's memories for the past weeks in complete silence, something quite strange. with the weird feeling that something bad was going to happen. "Rebecca, have you turned on the Animus?" Shaun said, before entering the chamber. "I've nearly done it" She said "We will be able to continue seeing the memories just from where we left them" he said, quite happily because of nothing serious happening. "Okay, Desmond, sit down please" She then said, as Shaun returned to his computer. Desmond sat down on the Animus, prepared to continue watching his ancestor's memories. Some minutes more passed, without the Animus starting to show Ezio's memories. "What is happening?" Lucy asked, "Why isn't it showing the memories?" She finished asking. "I don't know! It is perfectly programmed, nothing is wrong with it" Rebecca said, as she tried to search for the source of the problem.

Suddenly the lights turned off, after being flickering for some minutes. When this happened the smoke coming out of the animus started getting bigger. "Turn it off!" Shaun said. "I'm trying, but it doesn't!" Rebecca answered as she typed continuously commands to try and turn off the animus. A moment after she said that, the animus suddenly turned off. The lights started flickering again, revealing two men at the centre of the chamber that weren't there seconds ago.

The four assassins looked at the two figures, wondering who they were. One of them was wearing an armour, and was holding the other man by his chest. The other man wasn't wearing any armour at all. Desmond then realised who the two figures where. The man who was holding the other man suddenly let go of him, with surprising force. As he fell, the other man moved his hands desperately, trying to get hold of something, but fell to the floor nonetheless. The lights suddenly turned on, revealing the two figures. Cesare Borgia was lying on the floor, with an extremely surprised look on his face. Ezio Auditore had the same look on his face, not being able to believe why they had suddenly changed of location and why Cesare Borgia wasn't dead. He looked around the chamber, recognising it immediately. "Monteriggioni" He said. He then looked at the other people in the chamber, and at the unknown objects that were in it. His eyes then met the ones of another man, who was identical to him. Nobody could say anything at all. How had this happened? How had the two men from the Italian renaissance appeared in the future?